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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1257 of 3737 20 November 2010 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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...when you love seeing them have technical problems playing a translation of someone on the news or delivering a speech, so all you hear is the original language. Like this.
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| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5470 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 1258 of 3737 21 November 2010 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
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...when your friends use your computer and freak out: "OHMAHGAH why is it typing in
Chinese!?!" "Sorry," you say, "forgot to turn off pinyin input." By the third or so time it happens, they're used to it and they find it more shocking when pinyin input isn't on. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Genocyde Groupie United States Joined 5771 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin, Persian | Message 1259 of 3737 22 November 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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When you buy a Swahili phrasebook/dictionary even though you aren't currently studying Swahili just because you were excited to see Barnes and Noble finally have some African language material.
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| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5470 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 1261 of 3737 22 November 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged |
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...when SharedTalk (or My Language Exchange, or Mixxer, or Livemocha, or Lang-8, or...)
is your Chatroulette. But slightly more intellectually stimulating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1262 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
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...when you can't help but notice that the hair on your bar of soap is shaped just like a Hiragana ん.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1263 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 11:08am | IP Logged |
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When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters.
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1264 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
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When you decline an invitation to watch a film with your flatmates but you don't even consider it because you have a "Skype date" with a language partner. Although maybe you would've considered the film had it been in a foreign language.
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